Oxford Brute Force wall/ground anchor review
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This budget wall or ground anchor is made from hardened steel with a ‘U’ section welded to a flat base plate. It’s tough stuff and pretty resistant to cutting.
It’s not as tough as Oxford’s heavier-duty Anchor Force anchor but you still need to make two cuts to get through it because the thick plate is nigh on impossible to bend.
The hole is 40x35mm at its widest. This allows most chains to pass through easily, but not larger ones such as the biggest Pragmasis Protectors.
The two bolts that come with the anchor are designed to fit into brickwork but at only 65mm we’d prefer them to be a little longer.
They do come with ball bearings to seal the bolt heads, though. It’s unlikely that the anchor would be levered but if it was those short bolts would be a worry.
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Warren Rossiter is BikeRadar and Cycling Plus magazine’s senior technical editor for road and gravel. Having been testing bikes for more than 20 years, Warren has an encyclopedic knowledge of road cycling and has been the mastermind behind our Road Bike of the Year test for more than a decade. He’s also a regular presenter on the BikeRadar Podcast and on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel. In his time as a cycling journalist, Warren has written for Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Urban Cyclist, Procycling, Cyclingnews, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike and T3. Over the years, Warren has written about thousands of bikes and tested more than 2,500 – from budget road bikes to five-figure superbikes. He has covered all the major innovations in cycling this century, and reported from launches, trade shows and industry events in Europe, Asia, Australia, North American and Africa. While Warren loves fast road bikes and the latest gravel bikes, he also believes electric bikes are the future of transport. You’ll regularly find him commuting on an ebike and he longs for the day when everyone else follows suit. You will find snaps of Warren’s daily rides on the Instagram account of our sister publication, Cycling Plus (@cyclingplus).
